Dancing With The Moonlit Knight · Genesis

230 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 7:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-55 and 57 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
DANCING WITH THE MOONLIT KNIGHT · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66 and 47 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 114-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 21 sections: 109 keep time, 53 are fills, 7 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

BREAK 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART W
PART AP
PART AW
PART BC
OUTRO 2
20 groovesS3JWEAW+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing With The Moonlit Knight?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dancing With The Moonlit Knight hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dancing With The Moonlit Knight?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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